So.. happen to see this forum in the featured forum bar at the top of the page, and how appropriate after what I just managed to finish. After about a week of trying, I was finally about to beat this challenge that is common to a lot of Zelda fans: The 3 Heart Challenge. On top of that, I decided to add more rules that made it so I could only get what was necessary and no upgrades whatsoever, and boy was this one hell of a challenge or what... Keep in mind this was only my second ever run through of this game. I didn't make glitches and tricks apart of this challenge, so everything here is as far as normal gameplay goes. So here were pretty much the terms of the challenge.

No Collecting Heart Containers or Heart PiecesNo Razor Sword, Gilded Sword, Great Fairy Sword. Only the Kokiri Sword. (unless taken away from you in which you cannot get it back)No collecting prize for rescuing 15 stray fairies in a temple.No collecting the Bomber's Notebook or completing any tasks in the notebook.No collecting any masks. (Aside from the Deku, Goron, Zora, Garo, Gibdo, and Captain's Hat) ***Note: This also means no Giant's Mask for the Twinmold boss battleNo area maps.No dungeon maps.No compasses.Only one bottle since it is required for one part of the game.Cannot use Inverted Song of Time or the Song of Double Time.No accessing Owl Statues.No Song of Soaring.No depositing rupees/no wallet upgrades.No purchasing items. (only item you're allowed to buy is the first bomb bag)No unnecessary items. (Deku Nuts, Bombchus, etc.)Cannot use Pictobox. (automatically given to you during boat ride scene)

And just for an extra challenge, no fairies in a bottle to act as an extra life.

I think that's about it as far as I can gather. It's a lot more challenging when you actually dive into the game and see how much more inconvenient and a challenge it is. To pin-point one moment in the challenge that was the most challenging would probably be Twinmold without the Giant's Mask, no Magic Meter upgrade, no defensive upgrade, and a small quiver of arrows(30). I've had to restart this whole temple over again on the final day just to face this boss again at least 3 or 4 times. Talk about annoying having to go all the way up the Stone Tower again to get to the temple. There were pleeenty of other moments that were also hard such as doing the Pirate Fortress with only one bottle and not being able to use the seahorse to guide your way through Pinnacle Rock just to name one all within the normal speed 3 day limit.

So, has anyone else taken the 3 heart challenge for this game? If so, did anyone do at with similar stakes involved? Any interesting stories involving it?

Just thought I would make this thread considering I literally just finished this challenge an hour ago and feel so accomplished that I did. XD

This sounds virtually impossible haha. An impressive feat to say the least, so congrats to you in that regard. I feel accomplished just by completing the game and getting the Couple's Mask.

Majora's Mask is easily my favorite game of all time, so I feel obliged to try this out at some point. I'll probably cave eventually (No Song of Soaring....), but it's definitely worth a shot.

If you like challenge, you definitely owe it to yourself to try the challenge out. It probably helped me a lot more since I had just finished my first playthrough of the game so I was a little more familiar with what I had to do. It's a shame I didn't have recording equipment to show what I had to go through. XD

Well, I've completed Majora's Mask several times, the most recent being a few months ago. (Still hoping for a 3DS remake, which would be fantastic.) Not sure how you managed to keep going back and forth Termina running through standard time, let alone facing the bosses with just 3 hearts. I'd imagine I'd be fine...until Gyorg comes up.

Well, I've completed Majora's Mask several times, the most recent being a few months ago. (Still hoping for a 3DS remake, which would be fantastic.) Not sure how you managed to keep going back and forth Termina running through standard time, let alone facing the bosses with just 3 hearts. I'd imagine I'd be fine...until Gyorg comes up.

Gyorg took me a few tries, but it wasn't nearly as hard as the Twinmold fight without the Giant's Mask.